Clinical Study
Chloride Balance in Preterm Infants during the First Week of Life
Table 1
Characteristics of 107 infants <33 weeks of GA hospitalized in NICU.
| | Characteristics at birth | % |
| | Male gender | 54.2 | | BW | | | GA | | | SGA | 25.4 | | Apgar score <3 at 1 minute of life | 11.2 |
| | Prenatal characteristics | | | Antenatal steroids | 77.6 | | Caesarean section | 79.4 |
| | Postnatal characteristics | | | Central venous line | 62.6 | | Acute anaemia at birth | 13.2 | | Body weight loss >15% of BW | 11.2 | | RDS-requiring surfactant | 66.4 | | Early onset sepsis | 6.5 | | Hypotension-requiring treatment | 13.1 | | Acute renal failure* | 11.2 | | HsPDA | 36.4 | | Oxygen dependency beyond 36 wks PCA | 12.3 | | Necrotizing enterocolitis | 2.8 | | Severe abnormal cerebral ultrasound† | 1.8 | | Death after the first week of life | 0 | | Cerebral palsy at 18 months of PCA | 2.1 |
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(NICU) Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; (BW) birth weight; (GA) gestational age; (SGA) small for gestational age; (RDS) respiratory distress syndrome; (HsPDA) hemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus; (PCA) postconceptional age.
g (mean ± SD), #weeks (mean ± SD), *according to [12], intraventricular haemorrhage grade 3 or 4 and/or periventricular leukomalacia.
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